Turn Off Your Gadgets! Day is Sunday July 19, 2009

Hi!

Like most people, I am addicted to gadgets, but I am equally bothered by them. It seems like we are continually surrounded by the white noise of our digital age. What if there were just one day where people around the world didn't need cellphones and computers and blackberries and Ipods and GPS and T.V. and video games. (Seriously, if you're over 12 and you're playing a video game, you need to re-think your life, anyway!)

My "dream" is that for one Sunday, during the summer, everybody will join me in turning off their computers, cellphones, blackberries, Ipods, GPS systems, video games,, and t.v.'s for an entire day, from 12:00am to 11:59pm. Instead, you can hang out with your family and friends... go on a picnic... explore a place in your own town that you've never experienced... and (here's my weirdest idea!), you can read a book (a real book, not a digital book). Please forward this and help me spread the word. Let's see if everybody around the world can do without all of these things for just one day.

(PS, I don't want to be a jerk about it! On this day, you can use your cellphone or computer for an extreme emergency... and, of course, you can keep the lights on and drive your car, and you can use a real phone -- a land-line -- and cook food... and, also: please bathe, because that's the most important thing of all.)

I guess I would love to see one day where everybody can be together, completely unfettered by digital devices -- just like in "the old days."Thank you for listening! Forward this to everybody you know and even everybody you don't know!

Please forward this to everybody you've ever met in your life.

This coming Sunday is Turn Off Your Gadgets! Day

Chuck Zigman

http://chuckzigmanoverdrive.blogspot.com/

Los Angeles

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